When my son moved to california in 2010 he said he would be home in a few years. One year bled into the next and i found myself going there every few months and extending my stay each time.

The camera, my creative limb that connects me to the world was my vice for learning a new region, and place that felt vastly different than my own in New York.

People are more outdoors, the climate is milder for much of the year. In close proximities , there are mountains , ocean , vineyards, farm land, and lots of vintage structures, so much for the eye to capture , never mind the people who seemed to live with a different kind of carefree zest for day to day life.

over thirteen years i used photography, as a magnifier to bring myself in closer to everything i was being exposed to and experiencing. Anyone knows the United State , knows that the east and west coast have a very different feel.

Over time i created a relationship with the region , driving, getting lost and stopping at will to get closer to the communities and land

Alot of these images tend to make the viewer want to move in and look closer, just as i did as an outsider, to create their own version of what they see. Part of getting closer to these images is also due to the fact that most of the images of people are obscured or hidden, and some of the objects you have to look at again, also creating your own story for what you are seeing, much like one does when reading a novel. We each have our own versions, mental imagery and understanding and that can be each others may vary.

Either way when viewing something there is the perspective of the one right there on site, taking images that speak to their own soul , of what moves them, finding a voice to what they see.,and that voice or experience of another that may be very different than that of the viewer. We all have to explore and find our own relationship to what we see and experience.